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THE NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE 



YOUNG LONG-BILLED CURLEWS: WESTERN CANADA 



transported thousands of miles across 

 the continent to the California-Oregon 

 boundary line, where the shallow waters 

 of Klamath Lake contain many islands 

 of rushes and are surrounded by treeless 

 plains, with Mount Shasta in the dis- 

 tance. Here were studied and pictured 

 the cormorants and gulls, the Caspian 

 tern, but, above all else, the white pelicans, 

 immense birds with a wing expanse of 



from 8 to 9 feet, many of which are 

 shown in flight or standing amidst a col- 

 lection of rude nests containing eggs and 

 young. 



Another chapter takes us to the Ca- 

 nadian Rockies at Ptarmigan Lakes^ 

 where beautiful pictures were obtained 

 of the white-tailed ptarmigan in summer 

 plumage, some of them standing solitary 

 and alone on pinnacles of detached rock 



